Motivational Quotes

Music

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

- Jackson, Michael

Best Quotes about Music

A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.

Lynn, Loretta

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

Steiner, George

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

Gallagher, Liam

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Brook, Peter (Stephen Paul)

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Conroy, Pat

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Thomas, Lewis

The history of a people is found in its songs.

Jellinek, George

Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

Huneker, James G.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Sir Thomas Beecham

10.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

11.

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

12.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Music is only love looking for words.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Duffecy, James

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.

Addison, Joseph

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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Cooke, Alistair

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw

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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Mencken, H. L.

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Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Attali, Jacques

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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Durrell, Lawrence

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I've outdone anyone you can name -- Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

Brown, James

27.

Music is the key to the female heart.

Seume, Johann G.

28.

If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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I was a veteran before I was a teenager.

Jackson, Michael

30.

Song is the heroics of speech.

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

32.

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

33.

I can sing, and speak to him in many sorts of music.

William Shakespeare

34.

But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

35.

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.

Chuck Sigars

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Britten, Benjamin

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It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.

Carpenter, Mary Chapin

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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Huxley, Aldous

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Music should never be harmless.